I'm running the second developer preview of Mavericks, and ever since upgrading from Mountain Lion all of my Spotlight search results have had multiple duplications for every item it finds. It's really annoying and I'd love to hear a solution for it.

3.) You will be asked for your password, provide it, as this command requires administrator privelages to run

You will receive a confirmation message saying that index will be rebuilt. Wait until index is finished rebuilding, this can take a while depending on the size of your hard drive, amount of files, etc.

3.) You will be asked for your password, provide it, as this command requires administrator privelages to run

You will receive a confirmation message saying that index will be rebuilt. Wait until index is finished rebuilding, this can take a while depending on the size of your hard drive, amount of files, etc.

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Thank you

EDIT: Nope, didn't work! Is there a way to delete the entire Spotlight database?

It is a hidden file. I have heard that it is in the root of the drive so it MIGHT be /.Spotlight-V100. I have /Users mounted to a separate partition on a hard drive though so I can't be certain if that changes it for me. You will also almost definitely need to reboot afterward, as Mac tends to keep stuff like this in memory, so deleting the file won't have an affect until after it's cleared from memory.

It is a hidden file. I have heard that it is in the root of the drive so it MIGHT be /.Spotlight-V100. I have /Users mounted to a separate partition on a hard drive though so I can't be certain if that changes it for me. You will also almost definitely need to reboot afterward, as Mac tends to keep stuff like this in memory, so deleting the file won't have an affect until after it's cleared from memory.

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